Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State." “It’s clear France will have to invent a new model.”
Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM
EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State" "..Europe’s more than two-year-old sovereign debt crisis and the economic slump ...lay bare the limits of France’s welfare state which, at about 31 percent of gross domestic product, is the world’s most generous and has more than 136 billion euros ($178 billion) of debt. “The structure of the French welfare state is such that you don’t see acute poverty, but the model has reached its limit,” said Philippe Chalmin, a professor at Universite Paris Dauphine. “It’s clear France will have to invent a new model.” With public debt of 1.69 trillion euros, or 85 percent of GDP, France is too hamstrung for expansionary policies to ride out the slump. Its government spending is among the world’s highest ,...." google it to read it all Socialism can be OK until you start running out of other people's money |
Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State." “It’s clear France will have to invent a new model.”
On 02/08/2012 01:50 PM, PĐŹ0xĐ˝ wrote:
Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State" "..Europe’s more than two-year-old sovereign debt crisis and the economic slump ...lay bare the limits of France’s welfare state which, at about 31 percent of gross domestic product, is the world’s most generous and has more than 136 billion euros ($178 billion) of debt. “The structure of the French welfare state is such that you don’t see acute poverty, but the model has reached its limit,” said Philippe Chalmin, a professor at Universite Paris Dauphine. “It’s clear France will have to invent a new model.” With public debt of 1.69 trillion euros, or 85 percent of GDP, France is too hamstrung for expansionary policies to ride out the slump. Its government spending is among the world’s highest ,...." google it to read it all Socialism can be OK until you start running out of other people's money The debt above, when compared to US debt, is a very small drop in the ocean. Oops. -- Alias |
Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State." “It’s clear France will have to invent a new model.”
PĐŹ0xĐ˝ wrote:
Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State" .... Socialism can be OK until you start running out of other people's money Bloomberg is exceptionally despicable even for a politician. Combining the worst features of liberals and conservatives, he'd like to turn the whole country into a nanny state. He renewed his push to ban guns in a Super Bowl ad. Bloomberg has banned smoking and trans fats and whatever else he thinks is bad for people (he thinks he knows that better than the people themselves do) and otherwise turned New York into a nanny city. He sends squads of cops around to question, search, and arrest people for any trivial reason; and they have to make a quota each day. It was taped and one cop quit because of it. "I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this," said Adil Polanco, an NYPD Officer. "They have to meet a quota. One arrest and twenty summonses," said Officer Polanco. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...ors&id=7305356 Jim Hoffer, News Team NEW YORK (WABC) http://news.yahoo.com/special-report...075206659.html Excerpts in quotes "Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. Murder has been on the decline in New York and other major American cities for years, but the mayors say they still see too many dead cops and teens." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The fact is that the murder rate in the overall population has declined significantly in recent years. The rate among cops has also declined, and was never higher than most common occupations. Truck drivers have a much higher rate, garbage collectors have four times as high a job-related fatality rate according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures. https://sites.google.com/site/thepol...eharmthangood/ Bloomberg has used taxpayer money to gain support and investigate shootings in other states. Like most such people, he relies on anecdotes to make his case--jigo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "New York's activist mayor cannot simply restrict handguns in his city - as he has done with smoking and trans fats. Two Supreme Court decisions - District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago - have declared such local initiatives unconstitutional. Instead, Bloomberg launched MAIG, which now has 600 members nationwide. In 2009, New York City contracted the security firm Kroll Inc. to send undercover agents to gun shows in Ohio, Tennessee and Nevada to show how people who could not pass a background check easily bought guns. Bloomberg launched another probe after the January 2011 shooting in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 13, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Using city money, he sent undercover investigators to Arizona to repeat the gun show sting. That move enraged supporters of unfettered gun rights. "The 'sting' was a waste of money that misleads Americans and did nothing to reduce crime," wrote John Lott Jr., an economist who writes about guns, in a column on FoxNews.com. "Talk about an aggressive publicity stunt." The NSSF's Keane said there are serious problems with many MAIG actions. He cited another investigation in which MAIG used gun data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to sue dealers found to be selling guns to straw buyers." "The New York City police department went to the ATF, traced data, turned that traced data over to private investigators, violated federal law, and interfered in 18 ongoing criminal investigations," he said. "The ATF had to pull agents out of the field because they were placed at risk." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST : "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State." “It’s clear France will have to invent a new model.”
On Feb 12, 1:13Â*pm, jigo wrote:
PĐŹ0xĐ˝ wrote: Â* Bloomberg Business Week on Paris, France February 08, 2012, 7:05 AM EST Â*: "Crisis Whittles Away Welfare State" ... Socialism can be OK until you start running out of other people's money Bloomberg is exceptionally despicable even for a politician. Combining the worst features of liberals and conservatives, he'd like to turn the whole country into a nanny state. He renewed his push to ban guns in a Super Bowl ad. Bloomberg has banned smoking and trans fats and whatever else he thinks is bad for people (he thinks he knows that better than the people themselves do) and otherwise turned New York into a nanny city. Â*He sends squads of cops around to question, search, and arrest people for any trivial reason; and they have to make a quota each day. Â*It was taped and one cop quit because of it. "I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this," said Adil Polanco, an NYPD Officer. "They have to meet a quota. One arrest and twenty summonses," said Officer Polanco. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...ors&id=7305356 Jim Hoffer, News Team NEW YORK (WABC) http://news.yahoo.com/special-report...push-gun-contr... Excerpts in quotes "Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. Murder has been on the decline in New York and other major American cities for years, but the mayors say they still see too many dead cops and teens." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The fact is that the murder rate in the overall population has declined significantly in recent years. Â*The rate among cops has also declined, and was never higher than most common occupations. Â*Truck drivers have a much higher rate, garbage collectors have four times as high a job-related fatality rate according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.https://sites.google.com/site/thepol...eharmthangood/ Bloomberg has used taxpayer money to gain support and investigate shootings in other states. Â*Like most such people, he relies on anecdotes to make his case--jigo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "New York's activist mayor cannot simply restrict handguns in his city - as he has done with smoking and trans fats. Two Supreme Court decisions - District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago - have declared such local initiatives unconstitutional. Instead, Bloomberg launched MAIG, which now has 600 members nationwide. In 2009, New York City contracted the security firm Kroll Inc. to send undercover agents to gun shows in Ohio, Tennessee and Nevada to show how people who could not pass a background check easily bought guns. Bloomberg launched another probe after the January 2011 shooting in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 13, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Using city money, he sent undercover investigators to Arizona to repeat the gun show sting. That move enraged supporters of unfettered gun rights. "The 'sting' was a waste of money that misleads Americans and did nothing to reduce crime," wrote John Lott Jr., an economist who writes about guns, in a column on FoxNews.com. "Talk about an aggressive publicity stunt." The NSSF's Keane said there are serious problems with many MAIG actions. He cited another investigation in which MAIG used gun data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to sue dealers found to be selling guns to straw buyers." "The New York City police department went to the ATF, traced data, turned that traced data over to private investigators, violated federal law, and interfered in 18 ongoing criminal investigations," he said. "The ATF had to pull agents out of the field because they were placed at risk." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloomberg, a typical product of american corporate fascism... is giving us a slight idea on how would tyranny look like, on a planet under total corporate rule... What comes to mind is this movie called "Equilibrium" with Christian Bale (American Psycho) |
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